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Totally stuck for girls names - overthinking this ??

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MrsPretoria · 15/07/2014 11:07

Our DS has an unusual but 'old fashioned' but strong name. We love it, family loves it and it totally suits him. But I am not stuck on theme names, so girls name doesn't need to also be old-fashioned but I do like Unusual-Classic. Both DH and I have got unusual names. Mine so much so it has never featured on any MN list, ever!

No names that end with 'ee' (as DS's name is a **y and two names ending with Y or an ee sound make me think of a pair of small lap dogs Blush )

Names that that have made it as far as a being considered are :

Pepper
Cressida
Willow

  1. Cressida was extremely popular with both of us as a name for DS if he has been a DD when he was born 5 years ago but less so now as now there is Cressida Bonas (my objection)
  1. There is a very unattractive car called a Cressida - albeit not in production anymore and not in our main country of residence (DH's objection)

Would these things matter to you ? I have visions of Harry marrying Cressida Bonas and there being a wave of little Cress's..

Pepper is pretty unusual (odd to some I am sure) but is a family name further back. Both previous Pepper's were very successful women.

I like Willow but only a bit, but it sounds a bit.. hippy and although we are a quirky, kind of international kind of family, we are not at all bohemian really! And, although both of us are very tall, slender isn't really a family trait, we are more 'Oak' or 'Plane' Grin and Willow, to my mind creates a tall, slender image.. Is that just me ? Am I just preggo-hormone mad and overthinking everything ?

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MrsPretoria · 15/07/2014 11:55

Disclaimer!

I have nothing against Americans/The USA/American names. They just are not for us Wink

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MrsPretoria · 15/07/2014 11:54

Thank you for your list - I am going to sound like a nightmare though Blush, none of them are for us. Again, Blaine/Fallon/Avery sound very american* to my ear. And a bit made up (I know they aren't, they are proper names!)

I don't like names with Y in the main body, it makes me think of people trying to be 'Unique' and spell things mad ways to make them so.

I couldn't call my child Meadow.. we live rurally.. I may as well call her 'Field' or 'Crop' or 'Barley' .. no.. immediate local mirth with that one!

Tamar/Marissa would have zero connection with our backgrounds - European/SA.

See, I/We are impossible to please.. it is a scourge!!

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myotherusernameisbetter · 15/07/2014 11:46

Cressida is ok but I'm not a fan of Willow and I don't like Pepper at all.

Amarys
Marissa
Georgeann
Maeve
Blaine
Meadow
Tamar
Fallon
Avery
Amabel

MrsPretoria · 15/07/2014 11:37

Oh.. Cosima. That fits the Unusual-Classic idea and also quite pretty.

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Only1scoop · 15/07/2014 11:32

Like Cressida

Cosima....

MrsPretoria · 15/07/2014 11:27

Piper doesn't do it for us, we briefly considered it. It's a bit too.. Hunter/Chase/Walker .. kind of american ?

I really like Willa.. DH thinks it would lead to teasing about willies Hmm ..

There is the Peppa/Pepper Potts but I don't really worry about TV associations. There are just so many. I get a few with the diminutive of my name as it's a very very famous song. And those that are short of imagination think it's funny to sing it to me..

Friend just called her gorgeous DD 'Sidney' and lots of people said - but everyone will think of 'Scream'... Another friend called her son Marley and the whole Marley and Me thing was brought up, especially by her MiL, who cried about it!! MiL now loves it.

I wouldn't have a name that wasn't as is on the birth cert. Not a fan of that. I like Phillipa but OH doesn't but if we had that I would call DD 'Phillipa', not Pippa or Pepper.

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Bowlersarm · 15/07/2014 11:17

Willa ?

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ThinkIveBeenHacked · 15/07/2014 11:14

People may also think you have named your dd after Peppa Pig or Pepper Potts.

ThinkIveBeenHacked · 15/07/2014 11:14

I dont like Cressida as to me it sounds a bit Disney Villain. And a nn Cress would make me cross.

Willow is lovely but becoming more popular if that is any barrier.

Pepper is interesting. As a nn for maybe Phillippa or Penelope yes, but I dont like it as a stand alone name.